Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

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Date: 1930, May

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Place: Shubenacadie, NS

Ownership/Collection: Collection of Elsie Charles Basque

Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Reference Number: P113/ 2000.**.03/ N-23,972


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The photographer, Elsie Charles, later Mrs. Isaac Basque, was a student at the Residential School in the early 1930s. Front row, from left: Mary McDonald, Margaret Hammond, Lucy Brooks, Julia Glode, Esther Phillips; back row, from left: Madeline Mitchell, Catherine Mitchell, Mary Francis. Dr. Basque writes, "We, older girls, were required to make our uniforms, brown woolen skirt and pillow ticking blouses. The only day we were allowed to dress up was on May procession Sunday." [Elsie Charles Basque to R.H. Whitehead, 6 November 1997.]

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girls; students; schools; Indian Residential School; Nova Scotia, Shubenacadie; McDonald, Mary ; Hammond, Margaret; Brooks, Lucy; Glode, Julia; Phillips, Esther; Mitchell, Madeline; Mitchell, Catherine; Francis, Mary


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